Scrabbleaficionados and wordsmiths around the universe will soon have some new reading material to bone up on . In celebration of NationalScrabbleDay today , the makers of the classic word game announced that 300 new words will be added toScrabble ’s official dictionary .
The new words will be issue in the 6th version ofMerriam - Webster ’s The Official Scrabble Player ’s Dictionary , which will be released this fall , grant to Mashable .
Here are just a few of the new additions :
Emoji(noun ): A small computer symbol used to utter emotionEw(interjection ): Used to express disgustFacepalm(verb ): To spread over the grimace with the handMacaron(noun ): A cooky with filling in the middlePuggle(noun ): A form of dogSriracha(noun ): A spicy pepper sauce
Some players of the 70 - year - old game may be surprised to learn that “ ew ” is n’t already a intelligence , specially moot thatScrabblerecognizes more than 100two - varsity letter word , including “ hm ” ( another expression ) , “ ai ” ( a three - toed sloth ) , and “ za ” ( dupe for pizza ) . If played strategically and placed on a triple Book solid , “ ew ” can set down you 15 points — not bad for two miserable letters .
NewScrabblewords must meet a few criteria before they ’re added to the official dictionary . They must be two to eight letters long and already in a standard dictionary . Abbreviations , capitalized Holy Scripture , and words with hyphens or apostrophes are immediately ruled out .
Peter Sokolowski , editor at great at Merriam - Webster , toldEntertainment Weekly , “ For a endure language , the only unvarying is modification . New dictionary entries reflect our spoken language and our culture , including deep sources of newfangled run-in such as communication technology and food terms from extraneous language . ”
The last edition of theScrabbledictionarycame out in 2014and included 5000 new words , such as " selfie , " " hashtag , " " geocache , " and " quinzhee . "
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